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Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee) · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1951

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Failure to Attend Court Brings Fines To the Mines

Lithgow Mercury · Thursday 25 January 1951 · page 5

Three assault cases scheduled for hearing at the Kandos Court, last week, before Mr. K. M. Dash, S.M., provided a number of…

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Western Miners Ten To One In Favour Of Weekly Stoppages

Lithgow Mercury · Thursday 25 January 1951 · page 1

Western miners this morning voted overwhelmingly in favor of one-day weekly stoppages in opposition to the Gallagher "incentive" award, quiet and orderly aggregate stopwork meetings being reported from three points in this…

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Coal Shortage in U.K. Serious Effect on Industry LONDON

National Advocate · Thursday 25 January 1951 · page 7

Many people in Britain may be thrown out of work soon because of coal shortages. Parliamentary Secretary to the Fuel and Power Ministry…

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Miners to Stop Coal Board Application Sydney

National Advocate · Friday 26 January 1951 · page 2

N.S.W., Victorian and Tasmanian miners today voted in favor of the Federal Executive plan for a one-day stoppage each week, until the…

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Only One Small Colliery Idle To-day

Lithgow Mercury · Friday 26 January 1951 · page 2

Having made their decision regarding yesterday's aggregate stopwork meetings, western miners this morning returned to work in full force, only one small open cut being reported idle on this held…

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Western Coal Stocks Are Low

Lithgow Mercury · Friday 26 January 1951 · page 1

Railway coal stocks throughout the Lithgow area were in a precarious position and stocks at loco refuelling depots were…

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Bathurst Coal Stocks Position Good

National Advocate · Friday 26 January 1951 · page 1

Coal stocks at the Bathurst Gasworks were, for the moment, exceptionally good and there was little likelihood of any immediate haruship…

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Crimes Act May Be Invoked Against Miners

Lithgow Mercury · Friday 26 January 1951 · page 1

SYDNEY, This Aft.--There are strong reasons for believing that the Federal Government will invoke the Crimes Act…

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Australia's Debt to the Gold Industry

Molong Express and Western District Advertiser · Friday 26 January 1951 · page 12

Almost one hundred years ago—in 1851—payable deposits of gold were discovered in Australia. That…

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Army May Be Used to Win Coal Supplies

Lithgow Mercury · Friday 26 January 1951 · page 6

The Army has been instructed to re-create as an emergency measure the coal-winning organisation that helped to break the coal strike during the regime of the Chifley Government…

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Coal Crisis Order Granted Against Miners

National Advocate · Saturday 27 January 1951 · page 1

SYDNEY, Friday: This afternoon, Commonwealth and NSW Cabinet Ministers, led by the Acting Prime Minister, Mr. Fadden,…

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Gold Centenary Bathurst Plans

National Advocate · Saturday 27 January 1951 · page 2

A meeting of the Bathurst Gold Centenam Committee took place at the Bathurst Council Chambers last night…

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Letter To The Editor Discovery of Gold

Central Western Daily · Saturday 27 January 1951 · page 2

Sir—For some years prior to 1850, an English gentleman, who brought out his wife and several sons and daughters to Sydney in…

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Miners Warned: Govt. Will Act Order Made To Prohibit One-day Stoppages

Central Western Daily · Saturday 27 January 1951 · page 1

SYDNEY, Friday.—The Coal Industry Tribunal, Mr. Gallagher, today issued orders aimed at prohibiting threatened one-day-a-week stoppages by coal miners…

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Claim That Hargraves “Eavesdropped” Location Of First Gold At Ophir

Central Western Daily · Saturday 27 January 1951 · page 1

A claim that Edward Hargraves was not the first man to discover payable gold reefs in the Ophir district and that he owed that distinction to eavesdropping while camped with some Australians in California is made in a…

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Coal Crisis Officials Silent

National Advocate · Monday 29 January 1951 · page 1

SYDNEY, Sunday: Federal and State Cabinet Ministers in Sydney tonight declined to comment upon the shortages of coal and power nor to…

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No Comment by Cabinet on Coal Shortage

Central Western Daily · Monday 29 January 1951 · page 1

SYDNEY, Sunday.— Federal and State Cabinet Ministers in Sydney tonight declined to comment on the shortage of…

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Coal Situation in Britain

Central Western Daily · Tuesday 30 January 1951 · page 6

Britain’s miners have been presented with a new scheme for increasing coal output. It shows seven ways in which both…

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Miners Fill Two Important Offices

Lithgow Mercury · Tuesday 30 January 1951 · page 4

A former Western Miners' Federation vice-president, Mr. R. Shirlaw, was re-elected to that position at a district-wide ballot just…

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Coal Crisis Fadden's Visit SYDNEY

National Advocate · Tuesday 30 January 1951 · page 1

The Acting Prime Minister (Mr Fadden) will visit Sydney tomorrow to discuss local developments in the coal crisis with Federal Ministers…

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